Safety attachment for stick-pins, &amp;c.



APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1908.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

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PHILIF RITTERSBAOH OE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'iO TlHEBER-ATH 8: CO. INC.,

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Application filed liiay 23, 19-58 To cit whom "it may concern:

*3 it known thati, PHILIP Rir'rnasmorinn, a ci izen of the nited States, residing at Kewarlr, in the county oi Essex and State of New J "icy, have invented certain new and hi i provenients in Safety Attacanients St ltd ins, $10., of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to safety atti-chments tor stick pins and other pins of a similar character and has for its object the provision of a novel device for preventing the displacement or loss of scarf-pins, stickpins and hat pins one the like.

hziy invention is a guard for scarf pins, consisting of a bow shaped single strip ot' spring metal, having the form and characteristics hereina fter described and claimed.

Itiy invention is illustrated in the accon1- panying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a rear view of a pin in position in a piece of fabric and with my improved attachment or guard applied to the pin. Fig. 2 1s a sectional view on an en larged scale, showing a pin with the attachment or guard in locked position thereon. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, with the attachment or guard in unlocked position. Fig. i is an enlarged sectional view of the metal strip from which the attachment or guard is formed, before the same is bent. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same.

T he strip of metal from which the attachment or guard is formed is designated 1 and is formed with perforations 5 adjacent the indentations 4, theseperforations having their walls at right angles to the fiat surfaces of the strip as shown in F The strip 1 after the perforations have been made, is bent to approximately the form shown in Fig. 2, that is approximately or substantially U shape, with the lips 3 spreading outwardly from one another, these lips, before the attachment or guard is placed on a pin, being slightly further apart than as shown in F 1g. While the attachment or guard is, generally soeaking, of substantially U shape, the two arms are curved inwardly and again outwardly adjacent the bowed middle part, this form being given the article for tie purpose of placing the walls of the perforations at an angle to the pin, as shown in Fig. 6.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 434,675.

When in holding or clamped position on a pin, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6, the outer, upper, edge and the lower, inner, edge oi the perforation 5 in the upper arm of the atta chment or guard engage the opposite sides of the pin, which is designated 0, and the outer, lower edge and the inner upper edge of the 1 erforation 5 in the lower arm of the attachment or guard similarly engage the pin, those edges of the perforations which contact with the ,pin tending to indent the surface of the pin, serving to firmiy lock the attachment or guard on the pin and rendering it impossible for the pin to he accidentally drawn out of the fabric 7 through which it passes as shown in Fig. 1.

When it is desired to attach or detach the attachment or guard, or to adjust he same on the pin, the lips 3 are squeezed towards one another by grasping them between the thumb and finger and this action brings the walls of the perforations into or towards a position of alinenient with the sides of the pin and as the perforations are always made slightly larger in diameter than the diameter of the pin, the attachment or guard can be easily moved along the pin or removed therefrom or attached thereto as may be required.

It is to be noted that the lips 3, 8, are arranged in such relation to the holes 5, 5, that when pinched together the holes will be brought into the alinement required to easily remove the guard from, or place it on the pin, and that when the lips are released and the ends of the guard allowed to spring apart, the holes will assume a position out of axial alinemcnt, so that the obliquely re lated angles of each hole will impinge against the pin and clamp it tightly.

I claim:

1. A guard for scarf pins, consisting of a single strip of spring metal bent to a bow shape and having limbs of single thickness of metal terminating at their free ends in diverging lips, each limb being first outwardly bent and then inwardly bent between the diverging extremities and the arc of the bow, and the limbs formed with perforations the walls of which are in alinement when the lips are brought together and out of alinementwhen the lips are released, said perforations being located between the free ends or" the limbs and the bend forming the bow.

2. A guard for scarf pins consisting of a adapted to be brought into alineinent when bow shaped strip of spring metal, the lnnbs the lnnbs are compressed towards each other. 10

of which converge near the arc of the bow In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, and then diverge and are then prolonged in presence of two Witnesses.

and formed with operating lips, the limbs PHILIP RITTERSBACHER. being formed at said diverging portions Witnesses:

with holes for the passage of a pin having EMIL GAIssER'r,

their axes normally out of alinement, but WM. H. KING. 

